From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 00:18:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3682106567C for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2668FC26 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.20]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F503106233 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:18:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-08-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A52212FA2 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:18:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-092-075-211-237.pools.arcor-ip.net [92.75.211.237]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EB21BF3D7 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:18:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7N0Ip0U003526 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:18:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7N0IpQi003525 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:18:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8075/Fri Aug 22 23:23:45 2008 on mail-in-04.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: No root filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:18:55 -0000 I just tried to update my box, but the new kernel wouldn't find a root device. This is a rather vanilla amd64 box, no zfs, one SATA disk, no other operating systems. It tried to mount ufs:/dev/ad6s1a, which is correct, but somehow came up empty. At the "Manual root filesystem specification" prompt, "?" did not list any devices. My previous good kernel is about 48 hours old, so this must have been introduced very recently. (I'm a bit short on details because I had to boot a good kernel to write this message.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de